(2004-10-22) Eu Vs Human Rights

The European Court has quietly brushed aside 50 years of international case law in a landmark judgment on press Freedom, ruling that Brussels does not have to comply with European Human Rights codes... (Hans Martin Tillack) had written a series of hard-hitting exposes of EU fraud and skulduggery, relying on inside sources... He was arrested by the Belgian police in March and held incommunicado for 10 hours for allegedly bribing an official to obtain internal EU documents... Leaked anti-fraud office documents have since shown that the allegation was concocted over dinner between two commission spokesmen... (The European Court) ruled in "Connolly v Commission" in 2001 that the EU could curtail Civil Rights to defend the "general interest of the communities" where necessary, despite human rights case law clearly and repeatedly banning recourse to such sweeping powers.